This book tells the story of how thinkers, over time, have dared to explore using experimental devices and how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespre…
This book tells the story of how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespread and accessible, philosophers now focus on problems of ethics particularly w…
This book tells the story of how thinkers, over time, have dared to explore using experimental devices and how the experimental method established itself and took a predominant role in the life sciences. While life sciences continue to advance and knowledge becomes more widespre…
Outsider scientists: routes to innovation in biology
Introduction : outsiders as innovators in the life sciences Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich -- The many sides of Gregor Mendel Sander Gliboff -- Louis Pasteur : the chemist in the clinic Jonathan Simon -- Félix d'Herelle : uncompromising autodidact William C. Summers -- The …
Outsider scientists: routes to innovation in biology
Outsider scientists: routes to innovation in biology
A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while shedding light on the field'…
"This book presents a complete, global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today-introducing a long-term perspective to the history of biological thought, while showing its fractures and upheavals through the ages. The history of biology often neglects certa…
